The Museum at FIT Celebrates Hip Hop’s Influence Over 5 Decades of Fashion

Upon hip hop’s golden jubilee — the music style was born in a Bronx rec room in 1973 — the Museum at FIT, on Manhattan’s 7th Avenue, salutes the always- envelope-pushing sartorial genre it inspired with the exhibit Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style, which runs February 8 to April 23. The exhibition examines the evolution of the hip hop subculture’s influence on the fashion industry via the largest and most comprehensive retrospective ever to capture the innovative style, and marks FIT’s first- ever show focused on fashion through the lens of a singular musical genre…. Read Full Article